Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-02-08
Washington News and Gossip.
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal reve-
nue., 1880; customs, $5OS, 1888.


LONGEVITY PAY OF NAVY OFF1cERs.-The United
States Supreme Court yesterday decided that ser
vice In the marine corps shall be counted in an
oflicer's time in the compensation of longevity
pay under the act Of 1883.
THE Navy department is informed of the arrival
OF the United States steamer Essex at Yokohama
to-day.
ARMY LEAvKs.-Post Chaplain David Wilson has
been granted four months leave. The leave OF
Capt. F. F. White, cOmmissary OF subsistence, has
been extended six months for disability.
THE FISHERIES CoRREsPoNDENcE.-The Presi.
dent to-day transmitted to Congress the cor.
respondence on the fisheries question.
TwRNTY-oNE WAR DEPARTMENT CLERKs 10 BE
DIsCHARGED.-Twenty-on clerks OF the War de-
partment have been reported to Secretary Endi.
cott for incompetency, tnef1c1ency or irregularty
In the performance OF their duties, and will prob
ably be discharged, although the Secretary has
not yet acted in the matter. He has however,
directed the dismissal OF clerk In the adJutant
generals office who refused to perform extra duty
after hours, when so requested.
EXAMINED FOR PRoMoT1oN.-Lieut. Commander
John MCGOWAN, jr., Lieut.. A. B. H. Lille and En-
sign Hero Taylor have completed their examina-
tionS for promotion before the naval examining
board, and have been recommended for promo
tiOn.
REsIGNED.-Mr Walter L. Nicholson, the topog.
rapher OF the Post Office department. has resigned
The salary Is 1850.
PATENTS have been issued to citizens of the Dis
trtct, as follows: Reinhold F. De GRAIN hoiSt1ng
and supporting device; Augustus Gersd0rf, funnel.
AMONG THE PRESIDENTS CALLERS to-day were
Speaker Carlisle, Senators Frye, Beck, Call, Cor
man, Dawes Pugh, Platt, Payne, Palmer, Morgan
and Harrison, Representatives Frederick Laffoon,
Lanham, Lore, Steele, Rice (Mass), LawleH Her
bert, Fisher, Davidson (Ala-), Gibson (W. Va:),
Martin, BlOunt, FOrney, Cultivate, Joseph,
Tarsney, Oates, Rockwell, Matson, Davidson Fla.)
and M Burrows, Edmund Rice, M: C.-elect OF st.
Paul. Prof. and Mrs. Taylor OF AndOver, JnO. p.
st. John and Sidney Clark of Kansas.
PERsoNAL-Adjutant General Drum was on duty
at the War department to-day.-P. NJ. Gallaher
OF Montana, and Henry Cannon, A. A. Plummer OF
Pennsylvania, Gen. n. S. Jenries, n H. Murray
Maurice S. Powers OF New York, A. C. briggs OF
Chicago, and D. Morey Of Troy, n Y, are at vii.
lard's.-Gen. Lew Wallace, Hon. j. d. carr OF
CALIFORNIA, G. s. Higgins OF Omaha, and Gen.
Daniel Mcclure, OF the army, are at the Ebbitt.--
Capt. George A: Stevens OF the navy, G. r. Weed
OF New York, NJ. W. Fuller OF Chicago, and VIM.
n. Draper OF Detroit, are ut the Riggs-Ex-
Secretary Window, David F. Harbaugh OF New
YORK, Thomas E. Proctor OF Boston, are at Worm
ley,s-A. Don Dickinson of New York, N. E.
Hale and James B. Smith of Chicago, and Irwin
JamiSOn OF New Orleans, are at the Arlington
George Mascemflten OF Bretagne, France, and
.. &. Madden, OF Boston, are at Welckers.-
Mrs. George L. Otis and Frank T. Mix OF St. Paul
II. Browne OF New York. G. j. Vinton OF Detroit
w. L. Shellman and G. A. Whitehead OF Savannah
are at the National-A. B. Moodson OF New
York, Frank Brown Of North Carolina, ]. NJ. Ship.
Va, and o. Z. Edwards OF Norfolk, are at the Met
rOpOlitan.